^v^erc liive, being generally edeemcd to have much 
more Rain than other Parts, and in a greater propor- 
tion than I thought reafonable to be allowed ; however 
it be, yet by what I have fent you, 'twould be unjuft, 
without further Obfervations of the like Nature in other 
Parts, that all England Ihould be efteemed to abound 
as much in Rain as thefe Parts do: Where by reafon of 
the very high Grounds in Torkjhire^ and the Eaftern Parts 
of Lamajhire^ the Clouds driven hither by the S. and 
S. W. the general Winds in this Part of the World, are 
oftner ftopt and broken and fall upon us, than fuch as 
Gome by an E. or S. E. Wind, which broken by the 
Hills, are generally fpent there, and then little affed: 
us and this is the reafon that Lancajbire has often con- 
fiderably more Rain than Torkjhire. 
The above-mentioned Method of Eftimating Rain by 
Pounds, to thcffe of my Family, gave a fufficient Idea of 
the Proportions of the falling Rains, and the wetneft of 
the different Seafons, though they knew not how high 
it would raife the Water in a Cylinder equal, at the bot- 
tom, to my Tunnel ; but to inform others of this with 
little trouble, in the Table I have fent you, the Pounds 
and Parts are doubled, and thefe I have rather fent you, 
than thofe of the whole Pounds ; fmce the fame gives 
both the quantity of half Pounds, and the height in 
Inches, according to the genera! way of Eftimating the 
quantity of Rain, only Vvfith this difference; that for 
the half Pounds only the laft Figure is a Decimal Fra- 
ction, and the other the number of the half Pounds ^v. 
and for the Height the two laft Figures denote the De- 
cimal Fraftion of an Inch, and the remainder the height 
in Inches, fo near the truth, that they only fail fhort of 
it one Inch in 200, which defeft is eafily fupplyed. To 
this I need only add,that the Numbers on the right hand 
are the Sums of all thofe in the fame Line, that is in the 
Srft part of feveral Numbers for Ten Years; fo that the 
